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	Friday, December 04, 1987
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	15x15
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	BAIT.CULT.OARED
	ORTO.AREA.SNEVA
	QUESTRIAN.BINET
	STREAM.RIME.ERA
	...ELIS.SERAC..
	SADDENED.ATLAST
	ALE.NEARED.TSAR
	BOAST.TIL.MOTTO
	RUTH.NOVICE.LOU
	ADHERE.ESURIENT
	..VMAIL.ERGS...
	AGA.CLOD.REOPEN
	MULTI.SOLARPOWE
	ARLEN.EVEN.OPEC
	SUEDE.REST.DESK
<ACROSS>
	Fish or cut this
	Dada, for one
	Like a trireme
	"ЧЧ take arms...": Hamlet
	Kind of rug
	Indy 500 winner: 1983
	HEADLESS HORSEMAN
	Intelligence man
	Main or mill follower
	Hoarfrost
	Stat. for Roger McDowell
	Site of ancient Olympic games
	Glacial mass
	Made melancholy
	Harry Warren song: 1942
	Stout
	Approached
	Autocrat
	Blow one's own horn
	Sesame
	"Semper fidelis," e.g.
	Swat was his sultanate
	Beginner
	Bud's comedy partner
	Stick fast
	Greedy
	W.W. II letters
	Desert regions
	Turkish title
	Blockhead
	Start again
	Many: Comb. form
	BOUNDLESS ENERGY
	Mercer colleague
	One way to break
	Cartel est. in 1960
	"Blue ЧЧ Shoes," 1956 song
	Caesura
	Secretary of a sort
<DOWN>
	Single offs.' digs
	In ЧЧ (mired in routine)
	Roman way
	Go ЧЧ (deteriorate)
	Red color
	Altdorf's canton
	Albany's father-in-law
	Ancient city of Egypt
	A Sitwell
	Black cuckoo
	TOPLESS DANCER
	At any time
	Kind of bank
	Special ability
	Western lake
	Former treaty org.
	Voice range
	Native-born Israeli
	Vocally
	BOTTOMLESS PIT
	Shot for Tway
	Squelched
	Dolly Varden, e.g.
	Beethoven's "fur ЧЧ"
	Noah's eldest
	Corporate union
	Diamond of rock
	Fruit for jelly
	"Phedre" dramatist
	Crustacean with seven pairs of legs
	Weeper, proverbially
	Second of a Latin trio
	Preceptor
	Conciliatory one
	"Windsor Forest " poet
	Flock group
	Turtle chaser
	Koppel or Turner
	Gallic article